I think to fairly judge this game, you have to recognize.

What was the intended audience for this when it released? And the answer is:

Sega kids, who never owned an NES and never played the Mega Man games, but still know who the character is, which, with me playing it in the modern age... That kinda applies to me.

I've never played any of the Mega Man games, so I didn't see repeat robot masters or reused assets from the NES games, all that I saw was: a Really, Really nice looking game gear game!

And, me not being experienced with Mega Man, the game's lower difficulty made it a lot more palatable for me, as well as its shorter length, it was a really fun, bite-sized showcase of what Mega Man is!

I'm sure this game is a lot worse to those who are familiar with the series but, considering that's not the intended audience, it does a really good job of giving new-comers to the series a taste of what it's about, and it honestly makes me excited to give the mainline games a go!

After Mega Man II for the Game Boy, I wasn’t expecting another handheld Mega Man game to be this awful.

There isn’t a single reason for this to be played. It only makes sense to exist and can only be thought of being enjoyable if you’re a kid from 1995 who had a Game Gear and wanted a Mega Man game, since this is simply a total conversion of some levels from past Mega Man titles from the NES (mostly from MM5), and because of that, there’s a SEVERE issue of screen crunch here, since these levels weren’t supposed to be played on a screen this tiny. You’ll find yourself facing lots of leaps of faith and off-screen enemies, and this is particularly frustrating when fighting against the bosses.

The level progression is absolutely flawed, the end-game brings back one of the most annoying levels from Mega Man 2 but a hundred times worsened, and the final boss is a f*cking joke. And on top of all that, your charged shot gets cancelled after taking a hit and can only be charged again after Mega Man stops flashing from the invincibility frames. Imagine THAT in a game that relies so much on the charged shot…

Well, the graphics ARE indeed more vibrant than the NES games, and the levels themselves are still fine in regards to their structure, but that’s really the only good thing I can say about this thing. The overall execution was atrocious.

Mission Perfect!

Ugh… I was dreading this one, and it looks like those feelings were completely warranted. This is a very strange pastiche of various NES Mega Man titles by an American developer (USA Gold) that clearly had no idea what they were doing. Horribly grating sound effects and music paired with short, amateurish remakes of classic levels and a Megaman that feels as bad to control as he’s ever felt. So many puzzling choices in this one. Megaman can only fire 2 shots at a time instead of 3, and all of the boss weapons reach new heights of uselessness. Just as well, for the first time in the series, the camera scrolls vertically as well as horizontally, making every second of this utterly nauseating. Interestingly enough, you can control the camera by holding down the jump button and using the D-pad as one would in a Sonic game. However, this technique is never actually taught to you, and, because of the unimaginable screen crunch, I’d imagine that most players would jump into nothingness and hope for the best. I’ll attempt to say something nice though: USA Gold had the good sense to make this roughly an hour long, and the graphics are pretty impressive! They’re clearly based on the NES games, but with added shading and some slightly brighter colors. Maybe I would’ve liked The Wily Wars more if it looked like this.

I’ve played some really bad Mega Man games, but, at this point, this one stands alone.

Looks like I'm apologising to Mega Man II sooner than I thought, what the fuck was this?

Despite being developed by a completely different company, Mega Man GG has an all too familiar holdover from the Game Boy titles. A hodgepodge of robot masters across different games, mostly to fill the back half of the game, and somehow there's now two portable Mega Man games that decided fucking Stone Man was a worthwhile addition to the robot masters. Shoutout to that part of the game making you go through Quick Man's entire level and then not even fight him, so cool.

Combined with absolute dog water sound effects and music, even by the standards of the Game Gear, and some of the absolute worst screen crunch I've witnessed this side of Sonic Genesis? Absolute dumpster tier.

This has to be one of the weirdest Mega Man games I've ever played. At the surface it's an odd hybrid of MM4 and 5 but the jank starts to set in pretty quick. Some of this game's oddities include:
- Bouncing powerups
- Near useless special weapons (which just have generic names instead of their proper ones)
- Only two shots onscreen instead of the usual three
- Super fast Robot Masters with very short iframes (I had to use an E-Tank on fricking Toad Man)
- Dr. Wily explodes when defeated and Mega Man absorbs his non-existent powers like any other Robot Master LOL

The game itself is also very short, probably so it could be completed within the Game Gear's equally short battery life. Difficulty-wise it's not that bad but the stage layouts are almost identical to their NES counterparts so be prepared to make leaps of faith!

I remember wanting this game when reading about it as a kid in the mid-90s and it's pretty disappointing to see that it's become a $200+ game these days. Ah well at least there's emulation and flash carts

This game was both painfully easy and full of cheap hits/deaths. Mega Man is super durable, and barely takes damage from hits, and his buster is really powerful. However, the game's very tight screen space has a lot of leaps of faith, where you're likely to go down a pit or hit spikes.

The special weapons were all pretty bad in this game. I do think it's interesting putting "new" Robot Masters in the Wily Fortress itself, with an appropriately themed stage.

But yeah, a pretty mediocre classic Mega Man game. Could even be the worst if the DOS games didn't exist.

RG35XX

É... Isso foi bem ruim. Não me importo de ele reutilizar estágios e chefes do NES, nem com a degradação visual se comparado ao game no console. Os Mega Man de GB passaram pelo mesmo processo e tive uma boa experiência com eles, especialmente com os últimos dois. Mas enquanto no Game Boy tínhamos uma experiência baseada na dos consoles adaptada para as telinhas, o que temos aqui é uma experiência copiada dos consoles, sem nenhuma espécie de adaptação para o novo suporte físico e irremediavelmente inferior à versão original em todos os aspectos.